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Lynyrd Skynyrd’s plane crashed on this day in 1977! Killing frontman Ronnie Van Zant & Guitarist Steve Gaines! But they left us timeless music 🙏🏻
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#vintagehockey
The Spectrum May 19, 1974
Better times #flyers fans.
Much, much better times.
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I usually don’t agree with a lot of things @SenWarren says, but on this one she is 100% correct. Private equity has destroyed SO many storied brands.
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Led Zeppelin III turns 56 today, and when it dropped in 1970, many fans felt betrayed.
After the thunder of the first two albums, the heaviest band alive turned toward acoustic songs, written in a Welsh cottage with no electricity. The reviews were cold. Today it is one of their boldest records.
Here's "That's the Way," live at Earls Court in 1975.
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Bill gets it.
Bill Burr: “Capitalism is a great thing if it’s regulated and they started deregulating it in the early 80’s and that’s how we ended up where we’re at. This new way of doing business where you come up with something and you just close the door behind it, nobody else is making money in this sector of business except for me. It’s out of control. You can tell it’s a monopoly when they don’t give a fuck. It used to be where all you had was your reputation, quality of your product, and how you treated your customers. Live Nation are internally sending emails laughing about how much they’re fucking over people. Why would you guys be joking about that?”
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Bill Burr: “How big does your yacht have to be? I have no problem with people having zillions of dollars, but pay the workers, give them benefits. Most people don’t have ridiculous demands. It’s like I would like to have a family, be able to clothe, shelter, and feed them and not have to worry every month that I’m gonna be homeless. The more of a reptile you are, the more ruthless you are, it’s respected in business. They hide behind well that’s how business is done. No, it isn’t. That’s how you’re doing business”
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Rocky Balboa (2006) A great scene, Rocky giving the iconic, heartfelt speech to his son, Robert Jr, about how hard life is, how winning is not about how hard you can punch, but how much punishment you can take and keep pushing forward, what true courage is. Inspirational🥊
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'The Who By Numbers' is the seventh studio album released on 3rd October 1975
The album represents a stripped-back, highly introspective shift for the band following their expansive, conceptual 1970s rock operas like Tommy and Quadrophenia
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Bernie sitting on the Capitol steps alone after his amendment to reduce Medicare drug costs was defeated 99-1. All he's ever done is try his damned hardest to make survival for American workers easier and I wish we deserved him.
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The attached photo of Sen. Sanders on the Capitol steps is from August 2022 during the Inflation Reduction Act vote-a-rama. A similar amendment on Medicare drug prices and benefits was defeated 99-1 then but 47-53 in a recent vote.
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Leon Russell - Stranger in a Strange Land
A weary plea to recover some humanity in a world that’s lost its way. Gospel, country, blues, and soul, bubbling away beautifully. A recipe that is unmistakably Leon.
1972.
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Al Pacino's rendition of Jimmy Hoffa is brilliant. It's a serious character but he plays it in a way where you never take him seriously, he's a fool who doesn't know he is not too big for "The Guys" to take him out and it resonates all the way through. You take him seriously but at the same time, he's like that endearing crazy uncle who always makes everyone laugh!
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“Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.”
-- John Prine
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Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, and Linda Ronstadt Trio sing “Bury Me Beneath the Willow” (1976) ❤️🔥RIP
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Dolly Parton says she found God in an Abandoned Church after growing up Afraid of Religion
“I think scared religion is no religion.
“I’m not religious as much as I’m just bonded to that thing that is God, that is so much part of me.
“I would go to that old church, and I felt the presence. I felt the presence there.
“I was just saying, ‘Well, just show me, help me, save me.’ And it was then that I just had this peace fall all over me.
“I felt like, for the first time in my life, I had truly found God.
“It was a feeling that said, ‘You go, and don’t you stop till I say stop.’
“So, I never have.”
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When Dolly Parton approached Robert Plant for permission to record her version of “Stairway to Heaven,” she reportedly worried about how he would react. Instead, Plant’s response was wonderfully simple: “Of course you can, you’re Dolly Parton.”
And somehow, that feels like the perfect answer. Dolly didn’t try to copy Led Zeppelin — she took one of rock’s most iconic songs and made it unmistakably her own, adding a touch of country, gospel, and her unmistakable voice.
Sometimes, a legend recognizing another legend is all the permission you need.
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Gene Kelly didn’t want to sing “Singin’ in the Rain” on The Muppet Show.
Kermit took that as a challenge and made it the plot, coaxing him into it anyway.
It was the last episode they ever filmed, and the last time Gene performed it.
A poignant goodbye to the song and The Muppets
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The Power of Music ..
This is incredible! #Dolly Parton performing "Peace Train" with Ladysmith Black Mambazo
I am loving the discovery of some of these lesser-known projects she has done!
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Dolly Parton says she once went through a period so dark, she understood why people turn to drugs and alcohol.
“Yes, I went through a bad period of time back in the ’80s when I was going through the change. I was having some female problems, family problems, emotional problems, and I was overweight. I didn’t feel good about myself at all, so I got myself in a pretty bad bind.”
“I understood at that moment how people get on drugs, how people get on alcohol, and how people can commit suicide. I didn’t do that because I kept praying, holding on to God, and hanging on to my friends.”
“No business thing has ever been able to get me that depressed. It has to be something very personal, either family or something during that middle-age change of life, when your hormones and everything are different.”
“I did have a very hard time, but God, praying, friends, and just trying to hang on helped me. Being Dolly, just being me, I thought, ‘Hey, either get off your fat ass and do something about it, or go ahead and blow your head off.’ And I thought, ‘Nah, I ain’t gonna do that.’”
“I believe God meant for me to go through that so I could completely feel for other people about everything.”
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La historia cuenta que Dolly Parton conducía por Brentwood, Nashville, de regreso de su oficina, cuando una voz a capella surgió en la radio. Al principio solo le sonó familiar: “If I should stay…”. Luego llegó el coro. Tuvo que detenerse al costado de la carretera, cerca de donde hoy está un Walgreens, porque el corazón le latía tan fuerte que temió estrellarse.
Era 1992, Whitney Houston acababa de convertir su pequeña canción de despedida en un himno mundial.
La historia había comenzado casi veinte años antes.
En 1973, Dolly Parton decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que la había llevado a la televisión nacional y le había abierto las puertas de Nashville. No fue un corte limpio ni un gesto de ingratitud. Fue una necesidad de crecer.
Para decirle adiós, escribió “I Will Always Love You”. Entró a su oficina, se sentó con la guitarra y se la cantó. Wagoner lloró. “Es la mejor canción que has escrito”, le dijo. “Puedes irte… siempre que yo la produzca”.
La grabó en 1974 y alcanzó el número uno en las listas country.
No era una balada de amor romántico, sino una carta de gratitud y liberación: “Te querré siempre, pero tengo que seguir mi camino”.
Poco después llegó una tentación casi imposible de rechazar. Elvis Presley quería grabarla. Dolly estaba eufórica.
Contó a todos que el Rey interpretaría su canción. La noche antes de la sesión, el coronel Tom Parker telefoneó: la condición era entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Dolly se negó. Lloró toda la noche.
“Mis canciones son como mis hijos”, explicaría después. “Espero que me mantengan cuando sea vieja”. Prefería conservar el copyright completo, aunque eso significara renunciar al sueño de oír a Elvis cantarla.
Aquella decisión, tomada con el corazón roto, cambió el rumbo de su vida.
En 1992, Kevin Costner y su secretaria insistieron en usar la canción para The Bodyguard. Había otra opción preparada, pero al último momento la pidieron. Dolly envió la cinta y no volvió a saber nada… hasta aquella tarde en el auto.
Whitney Houston, con la producción de David Foster, la transformó: el inicio a capella, la potencia vocal, el escalofrío que recorre el mundo.
Catorce semanas en el número uno del Billboard Hot 100. La banda sonora se convirtió en una de las más vendidas de la historia.
La versión de Whitney generó para Dolly alrededor de diez millones de dólares en regalías solo en la década de los noventa.
Dolly no guardó el dinero en silencio. Compró un complejo de oficinas, un strip mall, en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville, lejos del glamour de la Avenida 16.
“Pensé: este es el lugar perfecto, considerando que era Whitney. Voy a estar aquí con su gente, que también es mi gente”. Lo llamó “la casa que Whitney construyó”.
“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, diría Dolly más de una vez, con la voz quebrada de emoción.
Whitney le había devuelto la canción transformada, más grande y más universal.
Dolly escribió la despedida. Whitney la hizo volar. Entre las dos tejieron un puente improbable entre el country de las montañas de Tennessee y el soul que llega al alma.
Una canción nacida de la necesidad de partir se convirtió en el adiós que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.
Hoy, cuando suenan aquellas notas a capella, todavía se escucha el eco de dos voces que se encontraron a través del tiempo y con seguridad, en la eternidad, y a la vez, se quedaron con nosotros para siempre.

























